Climate Change? and the bicycle? This fellow combined an interest in both to produce this four video series. He biked from California to Florida, interviewing people about environmental efforts along the way and then produced this four video series. Cyclicious introduces it, but you might go directly to The Project Southern Tier website to view the videos.

Linda would drop everything and take off on a cross-country tour any time. Me? . . . Corrie

“There were lots of wonderful, scenic views today, from boiling waves in fractured lava flows, to streams and rivers and bridges, all flowing from the view sideways. And, I’m thinking that the sideways view is the special one. The sideways view is the one that lets you know how fast you are going. The sideways view is the most dangerous, requiring the most skill. ANYONE, can look ahead, for all the good that does you, cause it ain’t real until you are there. And, of course, looking behind has some serious limitations–it’s already done, and unless you learned something from it that is going to help you in the moment, it is either legacy or burden.

All I can say is this: Everything that I saw from my right and left looked pretty good.”

Nothing wimpy about riding around Mt. Rainier. No, not the one day event which is tough enough, but doing it in two days fully loaded. Sheesh, what is it with some people and hills?–Corrie

For their Ride Around Mount Rainier, Carry and her husband Nick intended to “follow the grueling RAMROD route [Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day], but in two days instead of one. We would ride in a counter-clockwise fashion, 150 miles or so around the park, riding over two major hills for a total elevation gain of more than 10,000 feet. Some people call this two-day ride ‘wimp-rod,’ but with loaded touring bikes, it’s anything but wimpy!”

In updating the 2013 list of more than 100 across-state and multi-day mass bicycle tours in the US, I noticed that more tour organizers are trying to create suspense about next year’s route by making grand announcements.

I don’t always check the blogs on our front page. I missed this one from Steve Largent but it showed up in my feed reader. Thought the same might happen to you–so here’s the link.

Steve’s a former member of TRC, secretary and mainstay until he moved to Boise. He hit the magic 60 and the Guard is kicking him to the side of the road. That’s right. Steve’s retired and on the bike full time.–corrie

While mountain biking in the Blues last August, Doug mentioned he’d be interested in a short tour this fall, and with my retirement scheduled for 30 Sep, we quickly worked out a plan to return to the Blues on road bikes- we ended up on RideOregonRide Old West Scenic route beginning and ending in John Day. A cold dry front arrived the day before departure with strong, steady, and cold winds.